Jan 10 2008
32-week picture is up! Click here to see it. All I can say is “whoa.” Had my weigh-in today as well (that’s what I call my doctor’s appointments :-)) and I’m up to 25 pounds on the dot. Not too bad. 7 1/2 weeks left to go!
Dec 26 2007
So we’ve got less than 10 weeks to go until Little Sean is due! We thought we’d start people’s brain juices about betting on a due date.
We made a calendar that we can post everyone’s guesses on. To get your guess on the calendar, post a comment which includes the date you think he’ll be born along with the time.
We will think about a cool prize for the winner…
Click here to see the calendar. We’ll be updating it whenever someone makes a guess.
We’ll probably do weekly reminder posts for the calendar as well, along with our post of the weekly picture. Speaking of, the 30-week picture is up. Click here to see it.
Nov 30 2007
I know I know, I should have posted this a few days ago, but I’ve been sick! 🙂
Like I mentioned earlier, Emily and I made the trek to St. Louis to visit my parents for Thanksgiving. Sean was also in town from Seattle. Wednesday night, my sister Megan and I stayed up sharing a bottle of Chateau Ste. Michelle cabernet and talking until 3:30am (430 my time!). We rarely get to do that, so it was very cool. Thursday was Turkey Day! Man I love thanksgiving…I think we should have it at least twice a year! Although, I’m sure there are a number of turkeys out there who disagree with me. Mom cooked and awesome meal for us and Emily made the famous Marshall Rolls. Aunt Karen, Uncle Ted, and Scott made it down from west St. Louis as well and it was really nice seeing them.
Sean, Manders (friend of ours and Megan’s from high school), and myself then made our trip to the movie theatre to catch our annual bad-movie-on-turkey-day which started back in the day with my selection of “Paycheck” starring Matt Damon. Sean’s selection this year was Hitman. HOO BOY was it rotten. We got to the theatre about 15 or 20 minutes late so we missed the beginning of the movie ( **cue Office Space “I wouldn’t say I was missing it, Bob…” ***). The acting was lousy, the female character in the movie probably only got the role cause she showed her boobs. What can you expect from a movie produced by Vin Diesel? But I digress…
The rest of the week was pretty uneventful – we went out to an irish pub in Belleville, IL that was nice, hung out at a local bar in O’Fallon, had an awesome hamburger at Denny’s (eggs and hashbrowns on a burger! YUM!), and hung around the house. Saturday we did a family trip to Pierre Marquette State Park to lunch on their lodge’s famous fried chicken and take some family photos.
While we were home for thanksgiving Mom and Dad presented us with some new gifts for Little Sean. As we’ve mentioned before, my dad is *very* handy in wood working. When Sean and I were born, he made us a cradle that was also used for my sister when she was born. Well, now we have a cradle of our own:
Paul’s mom has also recently dusted off her knitting needles and made a fun little hat for Little Sean:
Can’t wait to have him try them both out (only three more months to go!!). Here are some highlight photos from the trip:
me showing my approval of the baby bump:
My parents – dad looks great! (mom too!)
I’ll post some more from my dad’s set of photos after I process the huge DSLR snapshots from his Nikon D80 🙂
Nov 29 2007
26-Week picture is up. Click here to see it. Sorry it’s a few days late 🙂
Only 14 weeks to go! I think within the next few weeks we’ll start our ‘betting’ for date of birth, weight, etc. Start thinking!
Nov 15 2007
Many people have warned me…”eventually you won’t like having those weekly pictures of yourself on the internet.” Well, I think I hit that point this week. I hit a weight this week that’s a little hard for me to handle. I know that it’s a good thing that I’m gaining…it’s just that ever existant struggle with girls and weight that’s hard to overcome. I do realize though, that lots of friends and family members that don’t see me all the time enjoy looking at the pictures, and so I’ll keep them going just for them. 🙂 Consider yourself lucky! Click here to see this week’s picture (24 weeks). Only 16 left to go! 🙂
Nov 06 2007
Every week my belly is “popping out” more and more. I finally think that I’m to the “cute pregnant” stage. Yay! I no longer look like I’ve eaten 3 buffet dinners!
Check out a picture from this morning, in regular clothes:
And the “official” 23-week picture below:
Nov 03 2007
My mom came over this morning and we painted Little Sean’s nursery. Turns out that the best color that we could pick was the same one that we painted the upstairs bathroom and laundry room. It was a beautiful and breezy day, so we were able to shut the door to the room and open the windows all the way, and weren’t bothered at all by paint smells. 🙂
The room turned out great. We did two coats and scraped by with just enough paint. Click on the picture below to see how our day went!
Oct 18 2007
We apologize for not taking a 19-week picture. I got so caught up in getting ready for going to Emmaus that I forgot. But, the 20 week picture is up. It doesn’t look like I’ve grown much, but I have definitely rounded out a bit. :-) CLICK HERE to see it.
